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Healing your Past

(1) Practise acceptance.

A story about this woman who went to Congo as a missionary, Helen Roseveare was brutally raped. Later she said, "I must ask myself the question, `Can I thank God for trusting me with this experience, even if He never tells me why?’" The secret of trust doesn’t lie in answers, it lies in acceptance!

It’s knowing that in the midst of whatever has happened, is happening or will happen, God is in control.

Either you fix your mind on that and determine to laugh again, or you whine your way through life complaining that you never got a fair deal.

(2) Bury the past or live with its ghosts.

Rehashing the same hurts is like watching the same movie over and over again, hoping for a different ending.

Learn from it and move on. You don’t drown by falling into the water, you drown by staying in it.

(3) Get out of the blame game.

Blame is a waste of time. When you blame yourself, you multiply your guilt, rivet yourself to the past and decrease your already low self esteem.

When you blame God, you cut yourself off from your single source of power, doubt replaces trust and you put down roots of bitterness that makes you cynical.

When you blame others, you enlarge the distance between them and you, losing the only option that works, forgiveness.

Can you still live in the past when what lies ahead of you is your future???

experience re birth everyday

you are loved

i love you.

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